Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] KVM: arm64: nv: Implement nested stage-2 reverse map

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:27:22 +0100,
Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 12:22:30AM +0100, Wei-Lin Chang wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 06:49:57AM +0900, Itaru Kitayama wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 04:42:58PM +0100, Wei-Lin Chang wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > This is v6 of optimizing the shadow s2 mmu unmapping during MMU
> > > > notifiers.
> > > > 
> > > > This version fixes a few issues, and adds Marc's space optimization
> > > > for kvm_guest_s2_mapping [1]. Please see the changelog for the details.
> > > > 
> > > > Tested by booting L3, and running in-kernel targetted tests described
> > > > in [2]. v5 got some tested-by's from Itaru and Wang (thanks), I didn't
> > > > carry them over since some bugs fixed in v6 are non-obvious. Some
> > > > retest would be much appreciated!
> > > 
> > > How did you boot into L3, with KVM selftest or recrusively boot on HW?
> > 
> > I just recrusively booted VMs on hardware. :)
> 
> Good. Then I actually tried that on Grace CPUs, but letting L1 boot 
> with nested mode did not print "VHE+NV2" KVM init log in dmesg, thus not
> able to boot L3. Do I need to add other than kvm.arm-mode=nested to command line?

kvm-arm.mode=nested, as documented. That also puts in perspective your
TB tag on the whole series...

	M.


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